Chevy Chase: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked
Did you hear about him and Eartha Kitt in the aeroplane...?
People do not like Chevy Chase. What's impressive for somebody who is such a cultural icon for people of a certain age, especially in America part of the original Saturday Night Live line up, he parleyed that early success into a load of iconic film work, before settling down to some equally prominent TV performances in recent years is that he's almost universally reviled by his peers. The boorish antics and outright ignorance and antagonism Chase exhibits towards his fellow professionals should have been enough to get him blackballed by the majority of Hollywood. And yet, he still finds work. Which means he must have something, because otherwise why would people put themselves through the supposed torture of working with him? Well, besides him being a big name that still draws in the crowds. It's probably a little from column A, a little from column B that has him returning as the mystical technician behind the temporal-warping jacuzzi in this weekend's Hot Tub Time Machine 2, which is apparently much better than a film called Hot Tub Time Machine 2 really ought to be. Has Chase earned his reputation as a talented performer first, absolute jackass second? Are people remembering him correctly? Or has he always been kind of terrible? Well, to answer that, here are five awesome Chevy Chase performances...and five that sucked.